John Campbell, Naoki Ikegami

The Art of Balance in Health Policy

Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System

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Produktbeschreibung

Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. This book analyses how the health care works, and how it came into being. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee-schedule constrains costs at both the macro and micro levels. Special attention is paid to issues of quality and to the difficult problems of assuring adequate high-tech medicine and long-term care. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-containment policy, they also keep in mind the possible implications for reform in the United States. Egalitarian values and a concern for 'balance' among constituents, the authors argue, are essential for cost containment as well as for access to health care.

Table of contents:
Preface; 1. Low health care spending in Japan; 2. Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making; 3. Health care providers; 4. The egalitarian health insurance system; 5. The macropolicy of cost containment; 6. The micropolicy of cost containment; 7. The quality problem; 8. Lessons?; 9. Notes.

Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care in Japan, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee-schedule constrains costs.

Describes the politics and economics of health care in Japan and their implications for the USA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780521571227
• ISBN-10: 0521571227
• Artikelnr.: 21020410

Autorenporträt

I love good stories. I remember exactly how I felt when I first read classics like Lord of the Rings, Stranger in a Strange Land, and the Foundation trilogy. I've been writing almost since I started reading. I performed the poems at Sixth Street's Chicago House that eventually became A Week of Years. Then my son came along, and I joined a tech revolution. During two decades at Dell, I accumulated a pocketful of good stories, and Riding on the Coattails of Genius was born. My new series, The Celestial Wars, is set in Austin, where I've spent the best part of my life. In the first novel, Harmon Waite is a homegrown detective befriended by a pair of Nephilim warriors who help him hunt an ancient evil. Before the twelve novels in this arc are done Waite's realities will be shredded by evils beyond imagination. Get ready for a wild ride down supernatural highways.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Low health care spending in Japan
2. Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making
3. Health care providers
4. The egalitarian health insurance system
5. The macropolicy of cost containment
6. The micropolicy of cost containment
7. The quality problem
8. Lessons?
9. Notes.